having this same issue, LonePurpleWolf (sam) any insight to this?
Havent had the pleasure of using this as of yet however appreciate the effort put into this and the constant assistance above! 
Hey @danielklewis87
Afraid I have absolutely no idea, sorry. This way of installing an integration is (entirely) unsupported, so the only advice Iād have without being able to get more details/replicate the issue would be to wait until the integration is in home assistant core.
Random guesses - with regards to ānot being able to set to heat/coolā - airtouch wonāt switch on if you donāt have any zones turned on (in HA, this is zones set to āfan onlyā mode), so thats one possibilityā¦ with regards to the temperature, another random guess is maybe the zones arenāt set to temperature mode and are instead set to vent % mode, which is unsupported & untested (at the moment, would love to get it working in the future)ā¦ but these are just totally random guesses!
Hi guys, thanks @LonePurpleWolf for the python work!
I have been trying to retro-fit it to an AirTouch3 control and have run into a road block or perhaps its just my understanding, anyway i was hoping it was going to be as simple as modifying the TCP port to 8899 in communicate.py from airtouch4pyapi, but no luck, seems to just timeout, has anyone else figured it out? Leaving it as default on port 9004 shows the error connection refused.
I knows thereās a few other ways but Im preferring this python way before circling back to the other ways
@SnaileeWhale I havenāt had a look at Airtouch 3, but with the Airtouch 2 Plus, the locations of all the information in the TCP packets is in different places. I wrote the python library to (try to) be somewhat flexible with this, and so provided that the same information is there, it would be possible to redo the packetmap to fit any airtouch system. I donāt see it being outside the realms of possibility (based on what Iāve seen) for this integration to eventually support all the Airtouch systems, but I have been focused on getting just one going so far (and am already struggling to find time!)
Totally understand and was hoping it was not the case re: packet map, I know @ozczecho managed to make a docker container running on .Net for 3 - AirTouch 3 Local Integration
but I have even less of idea how that one is decoding as it doesnt seem to use a āpacket mapā not that my .Net is any better 
@LonePurpleWolf - Whatās involved in getting group zone percentages (for the dampers) working? is that something I could help out with? Iām not great with python but could have a look into something for you if you need an extra pair of hands.
Hi @Snozzle
Based on my understanding, ignoring approvals and PRs and other non-technical blockers, for zone percentages, two things would have to happen - airtouch4pyapi Ā· PyPI would have to be enhanced to support setting and reading zone percentages, and then a cover entity for each zone would have to be created/implemented in the home assistant integration - definitely open if someone else wants to have a crackā¦
The cover stuff will (hopefully) be alot easier to implement once this initial PR makes it into HA core - if youāre keen, the biggest problem right now is that I havenāt had time to address the latest (3rdā¦) code review on the PRā¦ Airtouch4 integration by LonePurpleWolf Ā· Pull Request #43513 Ā· home-assistant/core Ā· GitHub
Hi Sam.
If putting the files into a Custom_Components folder is not supported, can you point me to advice on where they do go? (RPi with the HA OS.)
Appreciate the effort you have put into this. Wish I was competent in Python to help out.
Hey @Steve61 sorry if I was a bit unclear - what Iām really trying to say is that the āproperā way to install it is as an integration in home assistant once the PR gets merged - Iām really just trying to set expectations that the way everyone is getting it working right now is just a (somewhat technical) workaround due to how long its taking to get it into HA - if you can get it working then that is fantastic as every single person who gets this running on their own installation no problems verifies the fact this works, but ultimately Iād rather focus on trying to get it into HA rather than get everyone to walk through the complicated steps to manually install. Hope that makes sense!
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Certainly does make sense and I am looking forward to the day it is integrated (probably not as much as you).
Thanks.
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Hey mate, Thanks for all your work getting this integrated!
Anyone watching this thread, just an update to say thereās a new version available with a fairly large chunk of changes due to the pull request review (no big new features yet Iām afraid, just more opportunities for bugs!) - biggest change is that the library now works asynchronously - this should mean if your airtouch freezes/is slow/other slowness happens on your network, your home assistant installation wonāt freeze. You should also get slightly faster updates to the AC entity if groups turn on/off and that causes the ac to turn on/off.
its just in the airtouch4-integration branch of my forked repository, anyone who is willing to brave it and verify thereās no new big scary issues, it would be much appreciated!
Fingers crossed this is the last big PR review - if it ends up sitting there for months again, Iām thinking I will give up and go the custom integration routeā¦ sorry to everyone its taking so long (Iām at least as frustrated as you!)
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Hi Anthony,
Can i just ask how you ended up getting it working. I am pretty familiar with HA and custom components but for some reason, when i take the files you have linked above and added them into a airtouch4 folder within the custom_components folder, (after reboot) i am not shown any new integration, and cannot find the Airtouch integration in the Add New (button)ā¦ if possible, can you spell out for me what you did to get the integration to show up. Thanks
@Mikkaat I had a lot of trouble getting the integration to show up but eventually it did. No idea why but Iāve got it installed now and itās working really well.
Thanks @LonePurpleWolf for the awesome work and sorry for my extreme hiatus - I had started using netcat command line switches for control but youāre python solution is way better. Only issue Iāve noticed is a few errors which youāre new code likely addresses. To install the new version, do I just need to copy the new files over the top of the old ones in my custom_components folder and restart?
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Hey @LonePurpleWolf, how you holding up? I saw that there are some notes and comments on the PRā¦ Recon you will tackle them or go down the custom integration route?
You are doing great work and no pressure. Let us know if theres anything we can do to help, even if it is to buy you a beer!
Hey @LonePurpleWolf , been testing out the integration and appears to be communicating fine with air touch controller without issue
However have noticed that over time the air touch controller app will slow down and eventually crash while this integration is enabled.
This didnāt appear to be the case prior to the update that introduced async operations. Not saying its that causing the issue only that the issue started after updating to that version.
Anyone else getting this kind of issue?
Arvo everyone.
Yes Iām seeing the same problems with the latest code - the AirTouch app on the console becomes unresponsive and eventually crashes, plus the IOS app becomes unusable after an hour or two.
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Iām alright! Sorry for the radio silence, been pretty flat strapped in the bill paying job 
yeah the guys had another round of pretty substantial feedback - frustrating, but hopefully itāll ultimately lead to a better outcome. Iām gonna try and keep going the core integration route as seems like the PR has a bit of traction now. Iāve taken a few days leave off work for this week, and hoping to spend the holiday jumping back into the feedback on the PR. @salty2011 @timbo thanks for the feedback and trying out the new version - youre saying your airtouch wall controller gets laggy on the latest branch? Mind if I ask if your airtouches are up to date with the latest versions (1.2.5.1 and 1.0.1.7)? Iāll try and dig into this as I jump into the latest round of PR comments. Also someone tagged @sibowler had a crack at a PR for percentage control to the API (is that you @Snozzle?) Thanks to whoever gave it a go, I will endeavour to check it out this week
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@LonePurpleWolf , Glad you are fine! let us know if you want any donations / tips for your work aswell really would like to buy you a beer!
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Hi @LonePurpleWolf - The @sibowler was me. I just got the system, but have been monitoring this for a few weeks.
Re the slowdown, my theory is that it could be due to a connection leakage in the communicate.py script. I believe that you might need lines to close the created connection (as i donāt believe these will be closed otherwise), just before the returnā¦ i.e.
...<previous code>...
except socket_error as serr:
data = serr;
writer.close()
await writer.wait_closed()
return data;
This is just a theory though, as Iāve not hooked the integration in yet (been hoping to install the integration via the core integration instead of via the custom route).
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